Affective Pedagogical Agent in E Learning Environment: A Reflective Analysis

http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ce.2016.74061

Affective Pedagogical Agent in E-Learning

Environment: A Reflective Analysis

Atasi Mohanty

Centre for Educational Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Received 15 February 2016; accepted 10 April 2016; published 13 April 2016

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Abstract

In educational research the relationship between affect/emotion and performance on cognitive tasks is well documented in both the neuroscience and psychology literatures. Researchers have claimed that emotions play a vital role in perception, learning, decision making, rational thinking and other cognitive functions. At the same time some others have added that both the positive and negative affective states are equally important in the learning process. In the real-life physical learning environment students’ affective feedback is a major cue that human tutors use to con-stantly adapt their teaching strategies, so that learning would be most effective and efficient for each individual learner. Thus, in e-learning environment it’s a research issue to think about how to design an artificial affective tutor or pedagogical agent, who can respond to students’ emotion and accordingly guide and motivate them for better learning. However, for post-secondary learn-ers it may be relevant, but for secondary level Indian students can it be feasible and cost-effective ICT learning tools. This raises many more questions about content, pedagogy, software designing and implementation of affective pedagogical agents as ICT learning tools in Indian school educa-tion system.

Keywords

Affective Tutor, Pedagogical Agent, Intelligent Tutoring System, Cognitive Computing, ICT Learning Tools

1. Introduction

environments as well (Lisetti, 1999). Thus, performance on cognitive tasks, such as “learning” cannot be consi-dered as distinct from affective state of the learner, as the latter unquestionably influences the former? (Bechara, Damasio, & Damasio, 2003). For example positive affect facilitates cognitive tasks like creative problem solv-ing and cognitive organization and enhances the intrinsic motivation for accomplishsolv-ing tasks (Isen, 2000; Isen, & Reeve, 2005), which confirms that positive affect/emotion can boost the performance in cognitive tasks. However, some other researchers have added that both positive and negative affective states and important in the learning process (Kort, Riley, & Picard, 2001). Here we can refer to the “student affect & learning” model of (Kort et al., 2001) (Figure 1).

According to This Model

Students typically orbit the quadrants in an anti-clockwise direction as they attempt to solve a problem. Both the positive and negative emotions are a natural part of students’ normal learning cycles. Tutors can help the stu-dents’ learning process through an awareness of their affective states. If a stustu-dents’ learning process intrinsically involves a journey through distinct emotional states, then identifying these emotional states would help an intel-ligent tutor to speed up this learning process on its positive way (Kort et al., 2001). Hence, an affect-sensitive tutoring system is very important to deal with the students’ affective state in learning environment and especial-ly in e-learning context.

2. Affective Tutor

In real life physical learning environment students’ affective feedback is a major that the human tutors use to constantly adopt their teaching strategies (Lepper, Aspinwall, Mumme, & Chabay, 1990; Fox, 1991; Merrill, Reiser, Ranney, & Trafton, 1992). Moreover, human tutors use the affective information they receive from learners to individualize the tutoring session, so that the learning is as effective and efficient as possible for each individual student/learner (Kort et al., 2001). The affective feedback from students that human tutors adapt can take many forms such as facial expressions, gestures and vocal inflections (Picard, 1998), mostly either non-verbal or paralinguistic (affective communication) in nature. Due to this non-verbal, voice modulation and spontaneous/involuntary responses, the human tutors constantly receive a significant amount of affective feed-back during tutoring session, which tells the moods and emotions of the learner, whether he/she is happy, con-fused, frustrated, surprised, bored or content with the learning materials being presented to him. Mostly human tutors use this information to adapt their teaching to match the affective state of the learner (Sarrafzadeh, Fan, Dadgostar, Alexander, & Messom, 2004). Thus, it implies that capable intelligent tutors who could adapt to stu-dents’ emotions could also significantly enhance their learning and performance. But, unfortunately very little research has been done to address the details of how human tutors adapt to particular affective signals in partic-ular teaching scenarios (Alexander, 2007). Hence it’s research issue to think about how to design an artificial affective tutor/pedagogical agent, who could respond to students’ emotion and accordingly guide and motivate them for better learning.

Figure 1. Four quadrant model of student-affect & learning (Kort et al., 2001) constructive learning.

1 2

3 4

Awe Satisfaction

Curiosity

Hopefulness Fresh Research

Positive Affect

Un-learning Frustration

Discard Misconceptions

Negative Affect Disappointment

3. Pedagogical Agents

According to research literature pedagogical agents are anthropomorphous virtual characters employed in online learning environments to serve various instructional goals. Very often they act as instructors or motivators and can interact with learners through gestures, natural language or facial expressions. Mostly the pedagogical agents are integrated in e-learning environments as they are assumed to be capable of providing cognitive sup-port to the learner (Baylor, 1999) and social enrichment to the learning experience (Gulz, 2005). Thus, agents can provide human-like assistance (e.g. answering the questions), as well as reduce learner anxiety and frustra-tion (by appearing as friendly tutor). Broadly two sub-categories of agents are found in research literature i.e. conversational and Teachable agents. Conversational agents are able to hold conversations with e-learners and teachable agents are characters/features that the students teach to complete various activities (e.g. solving puz-zles). Thus, the history of pedagogical agents in e-learning environment can be traced back to 1970s, with the development of “Intelligent Tutoring Systems” (ITS) (Veletsianos & Russell, 2013).

Qualities of Pedagogical Agents

An ITS exhibits characteristic features similar to a human tutor, such as being able to answer student questions, detect misconceptions and provide accurate feedback. Recently, the agents are also seen as having social (and- relational) artifacts, besides cognitive assistance. Thus, in an e-learning environments the pedagogical agents play multiple roles such as tutors, coaches, and actors (Payr, 2003), experts, motivators and mentors (Baylor & Kim, 2005); learning companions (Kim, Baylor, & Shen, 2007); change agents (Kim & Baylor, 2008); and life-long learning partners (Chou, Chan, & Lin, 2003). Often, learners may stereotype agents according to their ap-pearance (Veletsianos, 2010), and appealing visual appearance enable agents to function as active social role models for e-learners (Kim & Baylor, 2006; Rosenberg-Kima, Baylor, Plant, & Doerr, 2008). Thus, their defin-ing roles are:

1) Adapt—A pedagogical agent evaluates the learner’s understanding throughout the interaction, just as a hu-man teacher would, and adapts the lesson plan accordingly. Agents will not move on to more sophisticated concepts until it is clear that the learner has a good understanding of the basics; if learners continue to have difficulty, the agent can provide additional instruction.

2) Motivate—Pedagogical agents can prompt students to interact by asking questions, offering encouragement and giving feedback. They present relevant information offer memorable examples, interpret student res-ponses and even tell a clever joke or two.

3) Engage—Pedagogical Agents have colourful personalities, interesting life histories, and specific areas of expertise. They can be designed to be the coolest teachers in school.

4) Evolve—Pedagogical agents can be revised and updated as frequently as necessary to keep learners current in a rapidly accelerating culture. They can search out the best or most current content available on the web to enrich the lessons that someone else has previously designed.

4. Affective Computing

flexibility in problem solving by more articulated information processing and higher efficacy in decision-making (Isen, 1999; Picard et al., 2004). On the contrary, negative emotions, such as fear, sadness and anger can influ-ence the blood in flow to different brain areas, making learning more difficult (Damasio et al., 2000; Lane et al., 1997).

Thus, affective computing within the Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) framework can be a valid tool to develop a well integrated e-learning environment to deal with emotional aspects in learning process (Picard et al., 2004). Primarily, there are three trends in affective computing which carry a potential for improving the e-learning experiences. For example-

1) The use of “Animated Pedagogical Agents” with affective features as virtual tutors;

2) The possibility of automatic recognition of (and adaptation to ) learner’s emotional and motivational state; 3) The use of 3D simulation and immersive environments for web-based training of emotional competence.

Pedagogical agents should ensure adequate social presence in individual e-learning setting, playing the role of a tutor, thus need to be designed according to consistent pedagogical models and to be appropriately en-dowed with communicative and emotional competence.

4.1. Affective Tutor/Pedagogical Agent

The affective pedagogical agent should be endowed with both the cognitive and affective architecture. In the e-learning environment the affective tutor is not only expected to create a friendly and engaging learning envi-ronment but also to assist the learner increase his/her meta-cognitive awareness and improve his emotion regula-tion abilities in coping with difficulties encountered during learning. Secondly the affective tutoring system should be embedded with the ability to infer user’s emotions, and react to them by adapting the learning path and experience (Mantovani et al., 2010). Another emerging trend in affective tutoring is aimed at focusing on soft-skill training in e-learning, with special emphasis on experiential learning, e.g. socio-emotional and com-municative skills.

Thus, the “Affective Tutoring Systems” (ATS) are ITSs (Intelligent Tutoring Systems) that are capable of adapting to the affective state of students in the same ways that effective human tutors do (Alexander, Sarrafza-dah, & Hill, 2006; de Vicente, 2003). Although the affective computing has started way back in 1997 (Picard R.) the Affective Tutoring System came into lime-light only a decade ago. With certain characteristics the ATS was developed.

1) Recognizing emotion—Recognizing user motion is absolutely fundamental to any attempt of developing and implementing an ATS. There are different areas of emotion detection which could be captured through af-fective signals, such as

a) Vocal inflections, prosodic qualities of speech,

b) Motor and physiological uses (Mota & Picard, 2003; Prendinger & Ishizuka, 2007) c) Facial expressions

2) The ATS should be able to show emotions too. Thus, in ATS emotions are generally shown through lifelike tutoring characters, also known as animated pedagogical agents (Prendinger & Ishizuka, 2004), i.e. agents that take the role of teacher-AutoTutor; the role of a learning companion or the agents that simply act as a guide. The primary benefit of animated characters is that they carry a “personal effect” which increases learner motivation and engagement.

3) The third attribute of ATS relate to computer’s ability to have emotion and its ability to act in an emotionally intelligent manner, i.e. to be “skilled at understanding and expressing its own emotions, recognizing emo-tions in others, regulating effect, and using moods and emoemo-tions to motivate adaptive behaviours”. (Picard, 1997). Thus, it’s absolutely essential for an effective tutor to be believable and positively engaging to stu-dents.

The affective Tutoring System (ATS) has the theoretical foundations well connected to various disciplines e.g. Education, psychology, computer science and Instructional design, as well as theories/paradigms like-computers as social Actors paradigm (CASA, Reeves & Nass, 1996) “Socio-cognitive theory” of Bandura (1986) “Cogni-tive Load Theory” of Sweller (CLT, 1994, 2004)and working memory model of Baddeley (1992).

4.2. Research on Pedagogical Agents: Outcomes and Challenges

ease and comfort in a learning environment, stimulation of essential learning behaviours, increased smoothness of information and communication processes fulfillment of need for personal relationships in learning and gains in terms of memory, understanding, and problem solving” (Gulz, 2004), but the evidences are often mixed and contradictory. Some have also claimed that pedagogical agents are capable of aiding learning, delivering content, and supporting both cognitive processing and meta-cognitive skills (Clarebout & Elen, 2007) through flexibility, support and guidance. Even, pedagogical agents are able to monitor and adapt to students’ learning styles back-grounds, and behaviors in order to individualize instruction (Sklar & Richards, 2010; Woo, 2008). A very popu-lar PA “Auto Tutor” uses dialogue feedback, corrective statements, hints, fill-in-the blanks questions & requests for more information from the user (Graesser et al., 2008). However majority of research have found that these agents have technological constraints and need controlled environment for experimental research. Researchers have claimed that PAs provide realistic stimulations by replicating human behavior (Sklar & Richards, 2010) like demonstrative procedural tasks, using gesture and gaze as instrumental strategies, enact think a loud to sti-mulate reasoning, meta-cognition and model appropriate social behaviour as human tutor. Thus, agents act as models, simulators and manipulators in the digital learning environment. Moreover, they can add to the believa-bility of simulations with a virtual body and by communicating in a natural manner with learners (Woo, 2008). They can also address a variety of learners’ socio-cultural needs in virtual environments by providing opportuni-ties for social interaction (Kim & Wei, 2011). Agents can also embody personalities by sharing stories about themselves, demonstrating various attitudes, expressing opinions, displaying emotion and empathy and provid-ing encouragement (Gulz, 2005; Woo, 2008). The social presence of pedagogical agents the “persona effect” is expected to increase “learners” interest, attention and motivation (Kramer & Bente, 2010). The developing rela-tionships between learners and Pas may enhance learners’ sense of responsibility, engagement and reduce the loneliness (Gulz, 2005). In comparison to conventional information delivery, virtual agents tend to improve comprehension, retention, recall, problem-solving, self-efficacy, (Dunsworth & Atkinson, 2007; Murray & Te-nenbaum, 2010), help learners retain information longer (Kim & Wei, 2011; Woo, 2008; Lusk & Atkinson, 2007).

However, some research has also shown that simply adding pedagogical agents in e-learning environment does not lead to better learning outcomes, with any benefits being attributed to pedagogy in all the occasions (Clark & Choi, 2005; Moreno, 2004). Thus, some design refinement with fresh attention to enjoyment, appeal and appearance of pedagogical agents. In a study of “Multiple Intelligent Pedagogical Agents” with multiple roles of PA (Expert, Motivator & Mentor) for college students Baylor and Kim (2005) found that agent roles were not only perceived by the students to reflect their intended purposes but also led to significant changes in learning and motivation. More specifically, the “Expert” agent led to increased information acquisition the “Motivator” led to increased self-efficacy, and the “Mentor” led to overall improved learning and motivation. The authors have recommended for multi-agent tutoring systems. Some of the popular “Affective Tutorial Agents” are

1) MOODS (de Vicente, 2003)—a simulated ITS tool for diagnosing the level of students’ motivation, 2) Auto Tutor (Graesser et al., 2004)—for classifying the students’ emotion,

3) Prome Climb (Conati, 2002)—an educational game designed for 11 years. Maths students, 4) Affective Learning Companion (Burleson, 2006)—reflecting on students’ non-verbal behaviours,

5) ITSPOKE (Litman & Riley, 2006)—an ITS that helps student with physics problems and analyses acous-tic-prosodic features of student speech and natural language processing,

6) Other (Simonite, 2007)—a Bluetooth-rate, blood pressure and skin conductance data to the tutoring system for analyzing learners’ boredom and confusion levels,

(Miller, 2012), GoAnimate, (Go Animate, 2013), Sitepal (Oddcast Inc., 2013a) and Voki (Oddcast Inc., 2013b) can also be used by instructors for training the teacher educators and act as role models by demon-strating how technology can be effectively used in the classroom (Tondeur et al., 2012).

4.3. Strengths & Weaknesses of Affective–Pedagogical Agents

Strengths

1. Affective pedagogical agents have ability to tutor a massive number of people, primarily constrained only by technology resources.

2. Use a conversational style interface; 3. Can boost feelings of self-efficacy;

4. Can tap in a wide source of information (i.e. web databases); 5. Promote individualized instruction, adaptive to user needs; 6. Facilitate people to treat computers like human tutors; 7. Use of ‘persona’ can boost learner engagement; 8. Remove the barriers in learning;

9. Fantasy element of interacting with another tutor/agent enhances student motivation;

10. Make use of body gestures, facial expressions, voice intonation, the components missing from traditional Computer Based Training (CBT).

Weaknesses

1. There are some “digital divide” issues;

2. Intelligent Affective Pedagogical Agents with multiple functions are very complex to create; 3. Teachers are not typically technology savvy to guide the learners;

4. Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology is still in its infancy; 5. Text-to-speech uses a robotic voice, often can be annoying to learners; 6. Speech recognition technology is not strong enough for widespread use.

7. People treating the computer as their companion could become over dependent and vulnerable to get its neg-ative effects;

8. Relying on persona can be distracting, if the user does not like the persona’s looks, cloths or voice; 9. Can be distracting for younger users;

10. Require massive investment of time, technology resources and money for creating huge database in the do-mains of knowledge as well as human emotions, expressions, understanding and spontaneous response to learners’ emotional needs and organize these into Artificial Intelligence database structure.

5. Conclusions and Implications

he wants to explore himself, thus should not interrupt randomly without asking for help. These factors are indi-vidual preferences of learners and to what extent affective pedagogical agent can accommodate all these dimen-sions. In addition to this, different learning activities like reading, writing, solving problems/exercises might af-fect students’ emotions differently. As a result learning activities should be considered an individual case study basis while providing cognitive and affective pedagogical assistance. Thus, we cannot generalize the finding that affective pedagogical agent/Empathic Tutor would invariably motivate all learners and enhance their perfor-mance across the culture contents and learning contexts. Moreover, for post secondary learners it may be appli-cable, but for secondary level Indian student can it be feasible and cost-effective. This raises many more ques-tions about content, pedagogy and software designing. Of course the virtual human tutor can never replace the real-time tutor, but in order to use it as an ICT tool to train and assist our teachers, for spreading mass education and skill training, surely we can venture into this to develop various educational/vocational contents/training modules for addressing fast growing job requirement’s and skilled manpower. In Educational Technology re-search China, Singapore, Taiwan have already made achieved the milestones but for educating the Indian school children we need to update our curriculum, pedagogy as well as educational technology and implement, syn-chronize these into our school system at the earliest.

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